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Journal Articles

• Harris, J. (2026). Who You Know or What You Know? Job Search and Matching in the Presence of Network-Based Recruitment. Work, Employment and Society.  
• Harris, J. (2025). Political Patronage and the Labour Market Experience of High-Skilled Workers: Mixed Methods Evidence from Sierra Leone. Eur J Dev Res 37, 241–262.  
• Warhurst, C., J. Harris, J. Cardenas Rubio and P. Anderson (2025). European Journal of Workplace Innovation 9(1 & 2):63-79.
• Harris, J. (2024). Not for us? Vocational training in the social and policy space in Sierra Leone. Education + Training.
• Harris, J. (2024). Digital Platform Work in Developing Countries: Enabling Capabilities or Perpetuating Dependencies?. Development.  
• Harris, J. (2023). Harris, J. (2023). Estimating the Size of the Target Population in Data Limited Settings. Field Methods,
• Lawson, A. & Harris, J. (2023). Is the problem driven iterative adaptation approach (PDIA) a panacea for public financial management reform? Evidence from six African countries. World Development Perspectives.  
• Harris, J. (2023). Do development initiatives in Sierra Leone contribute to (dis)connections in the Education-Training-Work-Continuum? NORRAG Special Issue 08, 94-97.
• Harris, J. (2023). Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency, Third World Quarterly.  
• Harris, J. (2023). Occupational preferences of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector. Journal of Development Studies 59)3, 342-359.

• Harris, J. (2023). Opting out of public sector employment: Gender and occupational aspirations among university graduates in Sierra Leone. Journal of International Development, 35(5), 897–914.

• Harris, J., & Lawson, A. (2023). Mainstreaming sustainability in public finances: Where PFM meets landscape approaches. Policy Design and Practice, 6(3), 313–327.
• Harris, J. & Lawson, A. (2022). Value-for-money assessment of social spending in developing countries: lessons from Ethiopia. Development in Practice.
• Harris, J. (2022). Exploring the desire to be an entrepreneur among university-educated youths: Lessons from Sierra Leone. Development in Practice.
• Harris, J. (2022). Mixed Methods Research in Developing Country Contexts: Lessons From Field Research in Six Countries Across Africa and the Caribbean. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 16(2),165-182. .
• Harris, J. (2021). Using specific purpose grants to achieve developmental goals: Some practical considerations. Development in Practice.
• Harris, J. (2021). Foreign aid, human capital accumulation and the potential implications for growth. Rev Int Organ 16, 549–579.
• Harris, J. (2020). If you can鈥檛 do teach: Exploring short-termism in the teaching profession. International Journal of Educational Research, 99, 101519.

Working Papers

• Harris, J. (2019). Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone. WIDER Working Paper 2019/101. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.  

Reports/Policy Papers

• Erickson, E., Atfield, G., Balogh, R., Harris, J., and Warhurst, C. (2024). Building a business case for good jobs: The links between Good Work and innovation, productivity and employee health/wellbeing. (Evidence paper). ReWAGE and 糖心TV Institute for Employment Research.
• Erickson, E., Atfield, G., Balogh, R., Harris, J., and Warhurst, C. (2024). Building a business case for good jobs: Links between Good Work and innovation, productivity and employee health/wellbeing (Policy Brief). ReWAGE and 糖心TV Institute for Employment Research.
• Cardenas Rubio, J., Harris, J., Warhurst, C., Day, R., and Bosworth, L. (2023). . Midlands Engine.
• Harris, J. (with Bryn Welham and Andrew Lawson) (2022). Doing technical assistance differently: Analytical support to public financial management in Ethiopia. Available at:
• Harris, J. (2018). Preferences of Possibilities? Understanding the labour supply decision in a LIC context. IGC Working Paper F-39408-SLE-1.

Blogs

• Observing World Youth Skills Day: Reflections from research in Sierra LeoneLink opens in a new window. IER Blog. July 2023

• Declining real wages and why we need to think about the income-health relationshipLink opens in a new window. IER Blog. March 2023.
• . IMF PFM Blog January 2023 (with Andrew Lawson)
• . Think Development Blog. 糖心TV Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development. September 2022
• . IMF PFM Blog. January 2022 (with Andrew Lawson)
• . Think Development Blog. 糖心TV Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development. January 2022
• . IGC Blogs. June 2019.